The internet is wonderful in many ways, but facilitating unscrupulous people to exploit and deceive others is not one of them.

After a three-year investigation, the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) has got their man, as “Notorious Noakes” is sentenced to prison for manufacturing and selling unlicensed medicine, and money-laundering.

We know that there is a chronic shortage of accessible housing in this country. It has been estimated that the Treasury would be saving £1.6 billion a year, mostly on health and social care costs, if all UK homes were built to Lifetime Homes Standards.

We also know that housebuilders have been enjoying bumper profits, in part as a consequence of the government’s Help to Buy initiative pushing up prices.

So you might be shocked to discover that the industry body, the Home Builders Federation (HBF) has been lobbying hard against councils wishing to fix targets for building accessible homes, on the grounds that it would make housebuilding unprofitable.

A family in south London found that they all preferred life with their Closomat shower toilet and vertical lifter, so when deterioration in the husband’s condition meant that he could no longer use an upstairs bathroom, they added a second similar installation downstairs, while retaining the original fixtures upstairs.

A recent study has found that women who slept for fewer than five or more than ten hours a night had a 25% greater likelihood of falling more than once a year, compared with those sleeping the recommended seven to eight hours.

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